Bordj El Mokrani

The Bordj El Mokrani (in Arabic: برج المقراني and in Tifinagh: ⴱⵓⵔⵊ ⵍⵎⵓⵇⵔⴰⵏⵉ) or El Mokrani Castle, is a bordj located in Bordj Bou Arreridj, whose origin dates back to the early xvi century, when it was first built by Hassan Pasha, son of Kheir-Eddine.

The bordj was first built by Hassan Pasha, son of Kheir-Eddine, but it was almost immediately destroyed by Abd-el-Aziz El Abbassi (brother of Ahmed Amokrane), Sultan of the Kingdom of Beni Abbès.

In 1740, the Turks came to Medjana for the second time, they rebuilt the bordj and left three hundred janissaries there, but shortly after, the bordj was demolished again by the Mokrani, who sent the surviving janissaries back to Algiers, with a letter to the Pasha, declaring that they wanted to live independently and that the Turks should under no circumstances and under no pretext, interfere in their affairs. The deys implicitly recognized this independence by never claiming taxes from the makhzen tribes of the Mokrani (the Hachem, Ayad, and Aït Abbas).

Around 1967-68, the bordj was ceded by the Algerian army to the APC of Bordj Bou Arreridj. In 1993, the APC put it at the disposal of the National Archaeology Agency to make it a museum in memory of the resistance and the fight of one of the precursors of the armed struggle against the French occupier, El Hadj El Mokrani, and at the same time, become a library for the entire Bibans region.

The Bordj El Mokrani (in Arabic: برج المقراني and in Tifinagh: ⴱⵓⵔⵊ ⵍⵎⵓⵇⵔⴰⵏⵉ) or El Mokrani Castle, is a bordj located in Bordj Bou Arreridj, whose origin dates back to the early xvi century, when it was first built by Hassan Pasha, son of Kheir-Eddine.

The bordj was first built by Hassan Pasha, son of Kheir-Eddine, but it was almost immediately destroyed by Abd-el-Aziz El Abbassi (brother of Ahmed Amokrane), Sultan of the Kingdom of Beni Abbès.

In 1740, the Turks came to Medjana for the second time, they rebuilt the bordj and left three hundred janissaries there, but shortly after, the bordj was demolished again by the Mokrani, who sent the surviving janissaries back to Algiers, with a letter to the Pasha, declaring that they wanted to live independently and that the Turks should under no circumstances and under no pretext, interfere in their affairs. The deys implicitly recognized this independence by never claiming taxes from the makhzen tribes of the Mokrani (the Hachem, Ayad, and Aït Abbas).

Around 1967-68, the bordj was ceded by the Algerian army to the APC of Bordj Bou Arreridj. In 1993, the APC put it at the disposal of the National Archaeology Agency to make it a museum in memory of the resistance and the fight of one of the precursors of the armed struggle against the French occupier, El Hadj El Mokrani, and at the same time, become a library for the entire Bibans region.